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Richard Blundell
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Blundell Richard Blundell is the Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London and is also Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is a graduate of the University of Bristol and London School of Economics. He was appointed Lecturer in Econometrics at University of Manchester in 1975 and Professor of Economics at University College London in 1984. Since 1986 he has been Research Director of the IFS, where he is also Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, the Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen; and the University of Mannheim, Germany. He has held visiting professor positions at UBC, MIT and Berkeley.

In 1995 he was awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize for his work in microeconometrics, labour supply and consumer behaviour, and the Econometric Society Frisch Medal in 2000, for his paper Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms, published in Econometrica, July 1998. In 2012 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics.

He was President of the European Economics Association in 2004 and President of the Econometric Society in 2006. He was President of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) in 2010. He is currently President of the Royal Economics Society.

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (1991), Fellow of the British Academy (1996), Honorary Member of the American Economic Association (2001), Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Science (2002), Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (2003) and Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists (2005).

He was co-editor of Econometrica from 1997-2001 and co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics from 1992 to 1997. His published papers have appeared in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Economic Journal and Journal of Political Economy.

Richard Blundell joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999.
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IZA Discussion Papers:
No. Author(s)
Title
7375  Richard Blundell
Monica Costa Dias
Costas Meghir
Jonathan Shaw
Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
6900  Richard Blundell
Luigi Pistaferri
Itay Saporta-Eksten
Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply
6125  Richard Blundell
Hamish Low
Ian Preston
Decomposing Changes in Income Risk Using Consumption Data
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2013, 4 (1), 1–37)
6051  Richard Blundell
Antoine Bozio
Guy Laroque
Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply: Working Hours in the US, UK and France
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2013, 34 (1), 1-29, )
6050  Richard Blundell
Marco Francesconi
Wilbert van der Klaauw
Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation: Announcement and Implementation Effects
5745  Richard Blundell
Andrew Shephard
Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79(2), 481-510)
5173  James Banks
Richard Blundell
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith
House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder
5168  James Banks
Richard Blundell
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith
Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
(published in: Economica, 2011, [Early View])
3800  Richard Blundell
Monica Costa Dias
Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (3), 565-640)
3044  Richard Blundell
Mike Brewer
Marco Francesconi
Job Changes and Hours Changes: Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
(Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (3), 421 - 453)
1785  Richard Blundell
Pierre-André Chiappori
Thierry Magnac
Costas Meghir
Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2007, 74 (2), 417-445)
1350  Richard Blundell
Amanda Gosling
Hidehiko Ichimura
Costas Meghir
Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds
(published in: Econometrica, 2007, 75(2), 323–363)
 

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